On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:41:13 -0700 Eric <rayrena at realtime.net> writes:
> >--- John Adams <jadams01 at sprynet.com> wrote:
> >
> >> You think part of the reason the Kinks didn't get
> >> the attention they
> >> deserved is that they were so out of their time and
> >> place?
> >>
> >
> >I never really thought about it before, but now that
> >you mention it, yeah. The Kinks were very conservative
> >(in their songs anyway) and full of wistfullness for
> >the England of their grandparents, while rock is
> >"supposed" to be about rebellion and young people.
>
> Oh, man, are you kidding? Village Green, along with the other two
> great albums in the trilogy, Arthur and Muswell Hillbillies, is
> beautifully, insightfully, at times scathingly satirical. I don't
> know what their "real" attitudes were, but the records are clearly
> satirical, though not nastily so. And I like how each of those
> records takes on a different class.
There is a lot of old Kinks videos up on YouTube. A few randomly selected videos are:
"A Well Respected Man" www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WsmSgBRUe4
"Dead End Street" www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WPC-N3UYE
"Sunny Afternoon" www.youtube.com/watch?v=As3JE0FTK8Q
"20th Century Man" www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrmQB38aT5U
>
> Man, those guys were good.
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